Yeah like I said the 1 thing I give the victors is the fact that they
play a whole bunch of formats. But what's the point of it being able to
play FLAC for instance if the speaker ain't hi fy enough nor are the
headphone pres? Meh maybe I'm just too spoiled by Bose. Cause when I
brought out my PTR1 just for fun last summer it was kinda meh to my
ears. But The Victors are still more meh to me. Saddly even the Strattus
that I have. I've not heard the Stream 2. So who really knows about that
1. But for books maybe they're okay.
On 5/1/2017 11:41 PM, JOHN RIEHL wrote:
I have the Victor Stream 2nd gen; this is my third. For what I use it for --
reading books -- it's great! I can create .mp3 files of books using K1000 or
download talking books or audible books. I don't use the wireless feature. You
can connect an external speaker using a patch cord; it works great! I use the
In-motion speaker; I have my Victor connected to it. I also use headphones or
the little internal speaker. It isn't perfect; I'd love for it to have
Bluetooth. But I'm quite happy with my Stream.
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Subject: Re: Victor Reader Stream 2nd Generation
Yeah the audio is kinda meh. You're right Dain. An IOS device and or
especially a samsung device do sound better. Ah I can hear the apple
fans now. How dare you? Did you just dare with a streight face tell me a
samsung device sounds loads better than an IPhone? Yeah I did. Kinda off
this topic but I noted the difference with my nephew Jonathan's note
phone. Now the quality thing. Could thhis be cause it's for DAISY books
for the most part? But I'm not sure about that cause Plextalk is better.
The PTP1 sounded better to me when I saw them at the NFB national
convention in 2013. I was also shocked that the PTP1 aka the Plextalk
pocket looks so much like it's a mini PTR1. But then to get back to the
topic at hand well at the time at least the streem 1 was such a
prediction of the Strattus players. How does the Streem do connected to
an external speaker though? To me the headphone pres of the strattus and
the Clasic ain't that good.They too are meh. Exeptable I suppose but meh
not hi fy.
On 5/1/2017 8:09 PM, Dane Trethowan wrote:
If you have nothing to compare the speaker of the VR Stream to then
yep its probably very good audio however I have plenty of devices
around my house - roughly the same size - which I can compare the
Stream to and - given that - I can tell you that audio from the
internal speaker of the Stream is not good, is muffled and should be -
in my view - better than it is given other basic devices are these days.
You mention listening to music through headphones etc and you're quite
right as you get the full benefit of better audio however I do invite
you - if you haven't already done so - to listen to music through the
internal speaker of say an iPhone 6S or a Samsung Galaxy S6 and you'll
soon hear a huge difference.
Again no, not an ideal listening environment but its certainly a vast
improvement on what the Stream gives you and through a smaller speaker.
I will say however that the audio from the second generation of stream
is quite an improvement upon that of the first generation.
On 2/05/2017 9:28 AM, Tom Kaufman wrote:
I've never thought of the Victor Stream's audio as being
"muffled"...having said this, I think of it more like the sound of a
6-transistor radio! If you plug it into a good speaker or a good set
of headphones, you do get a pretty good sound! But no...if I'm going
to listen to any music on that thing, I'd much prefer an external
speaker or headphones!
Tom Kaufman
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Dane Trethowan
Sent: Monday, May 01, 2017 5:34 PM
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Subject: Re: Victor Reader Stream 2nd Generation
I just shake my head though when it comes to that muffled speaker for
audio, all my phones do far better than what the Stream does but then
again audio has always been a problem with the Stream.
The handling of multiple format files - for recording as well as
playback - is a welcom addition and - at the very least - the quality of
audio from the headphones jack seems to be quite acceptable.
On 2/05/2017 2:41 AM, Evan Reese wrote:
As to slow downloading of data, I have noticed with ours, and those of
some friends, that it doesn't seem to have a great wi-fi transceiver
in it. Even when I'm close to my router, it usually says that
reception is poor.
Other than that, you are right, a lot of functionality in that little
package.
Evan
-----Original Message----- From: Dane Trethowan
Sent: Monday, May 01, 2017 10:24 AM
To: PC Audio Discussion List
Subject: Victor Reader Stream 2nd Generation
Hi!
I just bought one of these units and would like to make comment on my
purchase.
Firstly I think that the unit does a brilliant job for what it is in
most respects.
The sound from the internal speaker is a little muffled however -
having
already heard a VR Stream - I was already prepared for this, a bit
of an
annoyance one might say so to overcome this I use a small BUniden
hand-held amplified battery speaker I've had for years, cost me $25
about 7 years ago, pity the Stream doesn't have Bluetooth but I guess a
product can't have everythint.
Now I don't know whether this is my unit in particular but I have
noticed that the downloading of data seems to be incredibly slow
compared to other devices I have on my network, I used the "Check for
Updates" function and - according to that - the firmware is up to date,
well at least the data does get downloaded I guess.
There's a hell of a lot of functionality packed into the VR Stream box
and a lot of this - such as the Internet Radio, podcasts and so forth -
I won't bother using - given I already have better solutions for that
sort of thing - but for those who don't the VR Stream provides a great
entry level to the world of Internet Radio and Podcasting.
Getting online with the Vision Australia library was a snap so I
downlaoded a couple of books.
Again, I have other Apps and so forth which I prefer to use myself but
the Stream is convenient for reading, no doubt about that even though I
read all my newspapers these days straight from the web site its
good to
know I have a reliable backup.
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